Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. Big names like Microsoft BizSpark and Sun Startup Essentials have a presence here, of course, and The Funded recently launched their Founder Institute in Paris as well.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

For the last 15 years, Bo Zou, who works and lives in Toronto, has been developing and executing experience strategy and design through all digital channels for companies like HeathWallace in Asia, and Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Canada, along with his own experience design studio in Toronto.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Otherwise, you are going to be searching for a place to stay at the same time that your fellow founders are, so there will be less offers.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. . John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.) Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. Evangelos : Yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My guess is that many VCs are. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Both of these traits made all the difference for the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Phil Randazzo , is the founder of American Dream U , a national entrepreneurship and coaching program that helps transitioning soldiers find work or start their own business. Phil Randazzo.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues. It's a very impressive concept, to say the least! Invention Labs.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

We also did some segmentation work and related exploration of relevant channels. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. Before I end, let me also point you to an interview we're running on my blog with Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList , which you may find enlightening. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. Two: the founders – are they curious, do they love to learn, and ask lots of questions? There’s really nothing comparable to GLG Share in terms of delivering those resources to startup founders.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. We did a cobranded social chat event on Tuesday that gave us an opportunity to actually test ride the Stanzr product.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

They are incredible founders, with amazing backgrounds, working on great ideas. Expa is a startup studio that works with founders to develop and launch new products. This experience has been integrated into a platform to help founders increase their startup’s chance of success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth. That’s the competition.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Cases and plans are useful for teaching managers of process, not founders.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

It’s now been over 3 years since the team has left my classroom and I thought I’d share with you what the two founders, Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden, learned then and what they’re doing now. At week six they were trying to figure out their distribution channel ( here ) after another pivot. The Autonomous Lawnmower.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Although I had wanted to sell items for several months, I found it troublesome to put them up for sale on the existing online marketplace channels,” says Quek Siu Rui, who set up Carousell with Marcus Tan and Lucas Ngoo.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2020

Saam arranges Zooms with key non-founder members of startup teams, since he no longer runs into them on visits to their offices. For example, one of Saam’s areas of focus is security; with everyone working remotely, the security and integrity of distributed channels of communication is more important than ever.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Lessons learned from starting up and teaching entrepreneurship were the focus of an interview with the latest guest on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Listen to the full interview by downloading it from SoundCloud here. ” Grant : Correct.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based incubator Science is at it again, having launched a brand new company called TopFloor designed to change the way we shop online. The company will manage the entire process from start to finish, including uploading the video into its YouTube channel. These results, combined with research by Booz & Co.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 16, 2010

The real reason they're pissed is that VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started , both because of inexpensive technology and marketing channels and because there are enough angel investors that founders don't have to sell the entire farm for ridiculous amounts of cash they don't really need. But founders often win.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Their sales had given them some real data on three potential distribution channels: direct to consumer, brick and mortar retail, retailers. If you can’t see the slides click here. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the skills rapidly enough to steer the company through this phase.

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